Elina Shatkin

Before every neighborhood boasted its own gelato shop, before bacon and Fernet-Branca began showing up in frozen treats, before premium ice cream became ultra-premium, there was Al Gelato. This friendly neighborhood cafe on the southern edge of Beverly Hills (i.e. the "wrong side of the tracks" by westside standards) serves......

Dear OpenTable: Every time LudoBites has announced a new Los Angeles residency, we've jumped, panting and salivating, like the proverbial Pavlovian dog. And every time, we've experienced the horror and heartbreak of the OpenTable reservation system. It's slow. It's prone to crashes. It's instantly overrun by LudoBites attendees. It has......

"Shoot 'em in the face, boys!" We can't argue with the directness of this advice. The brutality is unappetizing, but the juxtaposition of such a violent sentiment amid the environs of a sedate, corporate-owned coffee shop added a much needed note of surrealism to our day. We can, however, question......

Our love for Rite Aid/Thrifty's array of cheap ice cream, specifically their Chocolate Malted Krunch, is well established. The strange cylindrical scoops are probably the best $1.69 you'll spend all summer. Now, in honor of National Ice Cream Day on July 17th (a holiday created by President Ronald Reagan in......

The word from Chick-fil-A headquarters is that Hollywood's first outpost of the Southern chicken sandwich chain is slated for a mid-September grand opening. We'll let you know as soon as we have a confirmed date......

If you've driven past Pal Cabron in Koreatown this week and wondered why the doors are closed and the gate is locked, it's official: the Oaxacan cemita and clayuda shop has closed, along with its next-door neighbor Natura, a Oaxacan ice cream shop and juice bar......

Down in Hermosa Beach, there's a cool, spacious shop that serves gelato worth seeking out. Paciugo Gelato (pronounced "pa-choo-go," if their signage is to be believed) offers a dizzying selection of 32 flavors. They line up all the usual suspects -- chocolate, caramel, sea salt, banana, peanut butter and strawberry......

Over 4th of July weekend, Brian Lethcoe quietly opened the tap room at Nibble Bit Tabby, his quixotic brewery on the industrial edge of downtown L.A......

With the highest number of per capita donut shops of any major metropolitan area in the United States, Los Angeles is the ideal locale for a donut confab. Following on the greasy heels of 2009's Hot Dog Death March and last year's inaugural Donut Summit, the 2nd LA Donut Summit......

Where an ice cream shop like Milk builds layered, elegantly crafted milkshakes replete made with superlative ingredients in carefully constructed combinations, Millions of Milkshakes devotes itself to diversity, an array of candy, fruit and syrup toppings in a mind-boggling array of permutations. If Milk is an Oprah book club selection,......